Vera Mikol
Vera Mikol | |
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![]() Vera Mikol, from the 1920 yearbook of Radcliffe College | |
Born | November 28, 1899 Chelsea, Massachusetts |
Died | 1982 (aged 82) Santa Barbara, California |
Other names | Vera Mikol Wiese, Vera M. Schuyler |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, researcher |
Spouse(s) | Ernst Wiese, Robert Livingston Schuyler |
Vera Mikol (November 28, 1899 – 1982), also known as Vera Mikol Wiese and Vera M. Schuyler, was an American journalist and researcher.
Early life and education
[edit]Vera Mikol was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the daughter of David and Lillie Mikol.[1] Her father was a close acquaintance of William Morris, and active in socialist politics in Boston;[2] he was a leader of the Ladies' Tailors and Dressmakers' Association of America,[3] and he worked as an interpreter for labor leader Samuel Gompers.[1] Her younger sister, Bettina, married David Sinclair, the son of novelist Upton Sinclair.[4]
At age 11, Mikol wrote a four-act play, The Distinguished Princess, which was produced at her school.[1] She graduated from Girls' High School in Boston in 1916.[5] She earned a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1920.[6] She was secretary of the Radcliffe College chapter of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society.[7] She wrote a story, "The Tower by the Sea", for The Harvard Magazine.[8] She won a scholarship for further studies in France,[9] at the Lycée Jeanne Hachette and the Sorbonne.[10]
After France, she made further studies in Germany and at Columbia University.[11] She was listed as a graduated student in education at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1939.[12]
Career
[edit]In 1926, Mikol was executive assistant to George E. G. Catlin, who chaired a committee studying the "social consequences of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution" for the Social Science Research Council.[13] From 1930 to 1931, she was a Research Fellow with the Social Science Research Council.[11]
MIkol was a reporter for the New York Daily News,[14][15] and reported on archaeological finds in Egypt for The New York Times and the Montreal Gazette in 1930.[16][17][18] In 1931 she was in Naples, studying piano and possibly working for the United States Foreign Service.[19] She taught in the journalism program at Los Angeles City College.[20]
Mikol was the uncredited research director on dozens of Hollywood films in 1945 and 1946,[21] many of them westerns, thrillers, or comedies. In the 1950s, she presented her research on composer Sigismund Thalberg at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society.[22] She was active in the Los Angeles chapters of Theta Sigma Phi[23] and the Radcliffe Club.[24][25] Later in life she lived in Palm Springs, and was active in the Opera Guild[26] and the Coachella Valley chapter of the Dickens Fellowship.[27][28] In the 1970s, she was traveling often, and writing for "golf and art magazines."[29]
Personal life and legacy
[edit]Mikol married twice.[30] Her first husband was Austrian journalist Ernst Wiese in 1937.[14][31] They divorced in 1939.[32] She was living in Pacific Palisades, California in 1957.[19] Her second husband was journalist Robert Livingston Schuyler.[27][29] She died in Santa Barbara, California in 1982, aged 82 years. The Harvard Radcliffe Institute awards a Vera M. Schuyler Fellowship, named in her memory; novelist Geraldine Brooks, novelist Mako Yoshikawa, historian Steven Zipperstein, anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, and mathematician Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas are among its past recipients.[33][34][35]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Brilliant Pupil of the Boston Schools". The Boston Globe. June 21, 1911. p. 9. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Cheers for Mr. Haywood". The Boston Globe. February 9, 1908. p. 11. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Fashionable Shape is the 'Stovepipe'". The Buffalo Enquirer. January 10, 1912. p. 3. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "David Sinclair, Son of Upton Sinclair, and Prominent in University Activities, Wed". The Capital Times. October 3, 1928. p. 11. Retrieved March 18, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Graduation at Girls' High School". The Boston Globe. June 22, 1916. p. 9. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Radcliffe College, Radcliffe 1920 (1920 yearbook): 56.
- ^ "College Notes". The Socialist Review: 60. December 1919.
- ^ Mikol, Vera (November 1919). "The Tower by the Sea". The Harvard Magazine. 1: 7–8.
- ^ "Honored at Radcliffe". The Boston Globe. June 20, 1920. p. 7. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Extract from Vera Mikol's Letter". The Radcliffe News. January 4, 1921. p. 4. Retrieved March 17, 2022.
- ^ a b Social Science Research Council (U.S.) (1951). Fellows of the Social Science Research Council, 1925-1951. The Council. p. 266.
- ^ University of California (1939). Register - University of California. University of California Press. p. 122.
- ^ Social Science Research Council committee records (1926), New York Public Library.
- ^ a b "Thinks Italy has Liability in Ethiopia". Hartford Courant. September 17, 1937. p. 4. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Little Theatre Dramatists are a Gloomy Crew". Daily News. May 13, 1923. p. 173. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Mikol, Vera (April 4, 1930). "Find Hold-up Story of 4,000 Years Ago; Members of the Harvard and Catholic University Group Unearth Ancient Records". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 17, 2022.
- ^ Mikol, Vera (March 14, 1930). "New Find Confirms Origin of Alphabet; Tablets in Sinai Desert Link Egyptian Hieroglyphs With Phoenician Characters". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 17, 2022.
- ^ Mikol, Vera (March 23, 1930). "Sinai Smelteries of 2000 B.C. Found; American Archaeologists Discover Copper and Turquoise Lured Egyptians and Semites". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 17, 2022.
- ^ a b Mikol, Vera (May–June 1957). "Thalberg's 'Erard': A Discovery". Etude. 75: 8 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Four Collegians Attend Annual Newspaper Day". Los Angeles Collegian. March 11, 1941. p. 2.
- ^ American Film Institute (1999). AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States. University of California Press. pp. 257, 539, 754. ISBN 978-0-520-21521-4.
- ^ Mikol, Vera (1958). "The Influence of Sigismund Thalberg on American Musical Taste, 1830-1872". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 102 (5): 464–468. ISSN 0003-049X. JSTOR 985592.
- ^ "Theta Sigma Alumnae Meet". Daily News. June 8, 1938. p. 11. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Vera Mikol to Speak". Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. October 27, 1952. p. 12. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Patio Level Pool". Mirror News. May 12, 1953. p. 39. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Opera Guild Goes Gala for Opener". The Desert Sun. October 30, 1969. p. 8. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Annual Dickens Fete Set by Scholarship". The Desert Sun. February 4, 1969. p. 4. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Roast Beef for Dickens Club". Palm Desert Post. February 5, 1969. p. 5. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "New Search as Passengers Relive QE2's Dunkirk Spirit". The Guardian. May 22, 1972. p. 6. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mikol, Vera [Mrs. Ernest Wiese] (Mrs. Robert L. Schuyler), 1916-1945". Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute. Retrieved March 17, 2022.
- ^ "Reich Hopes to get Ethiopia, Motorcycle Tourist Asserts". The Boston Globe. September 30, 1937. p. 21. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Divorce Suits Filed". The Los Angeles Times. May 12, 1939. p. 18. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Harrison, Pat (April 27, 2006). "Making fiction from fact". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved March 17, 2022.
- ^ "Mako Yoshikawa". Penguin Random House Canada. Retrieved March 17, 2022.
- ^ "Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved March 17, 2022.
External links
[edit]- Vera Mikol at IMDb